Find, if you can, in what you cannot change. Manners with fortunes, hu…

Alexander Pope
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Find, if you can, in what you cannot change. Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times. ✨ The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: To which is Prefixed a Life of the Author.
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Authors are partial to their wit, 'tis true, But are not critics to their judgment, too? ✨ Alexander Pope (1825). The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With a Sketch of the Author's Life, p.49
Nor Fame I slight, nor for her favors call; She comes unlooked for, if she comes at all . ✨ Alexander Pope, John Wilson Croker (1871). The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Ot … ▶
At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense. ✨ Alexander Pope (2015). An Essay on Criticism, p.13, Sheba Blake Publishing
Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel?
And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too. ✨ Alexander Pope (1815). Poetical works, p.130

Find, if you can, in what you cannot change. Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times. ✨ The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: To which is Prefixed a Life of the Author.

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